EXCLU: 'Putin is no longer able to sell Russia's energy at a profit. Russia is losing money on discounted deals he's made with countries such as India and Turkey,' Vladimir Milov told The Daily Beast.
Russian President Vladimir PutinMilov has been a Russian-on-the-run since 2002. He is today unmistakably the most menacing desperado on Putin’s Most Wanted Fugitive list. Yet the mild-mannered graduate of Moscow State Mining University is neither a defenestrated lawyer nor an academic outcast for railing against. The 50-year-old former Deputy Minister of Energy is Putin’s most fearsome nightmare precisely because he speaks in tongues.
Milov’s troubles began in 2002, when the Kremlin ordered him to submit a plan to restructure the oil and gas giant Gazprom. At the same time, Putin was putting the finishing touches on his 2003 scheme that seized the majority state-owned firm’s chief competitor Yukos, sending its founder, the now-exiled dissident Mikhail Khordorkovsky, off to count the birch trees in Siberia for 10 years on ambiguous charges of fraud, tax evasion, and other economic crimes.
“The KGB has so far visited the homes of some 60,000 people, threatening them with prison if they protest Putin, the war or anything else,” Milov says. “The door-knocks echo fast throughout the community. The atmosphere of fear is very strong.” “The Russian population is scared,” Milov says after downing his coffee safely. “I do not and cannot afford to ask myself if I am scared,” he adds. “The great awakening will come when the Russian people learn what he has done in Ukraine. They will be ashamed, and they will send Putin away to stand trial for war crimes.”
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